Stephan Haggard Quoted in KGTV, San Diego
Local Residents React To Skirmishes In Korea
11/23/2010
KGTV, San Diego
San Diego's Korean community is reacting with fear and worry in the aftermath of an attack by North Korea on an island in South Korea.
"Anything could happen and my dad's over there. He's there working for our family here in the United States so it's a little worrisome," said Mindy Lee, a student at UC San Diego.
On Tuesday, North Korea fired a number of mortar rounds onto an island in the South, killing two South Korean soldiers and injuring at least a dozen civilians. The United States has 28,500 troops in Korea which are mostly from the Army's Second Infantry Division.
"I think the North Koreans have calculated very carefully to provoke in such a way that there isn't an easy military response to this," said Stephan Haggard, a professor of Pacific Studies at of UCSD's graduate school. "The security of the peninsula is guaranteed in large part by the presence of American forces and obviously this is a challenge to that capability, so the U.S... has an obligation to see this through."
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Professor Haggard can provide commentary on current developments in the Asia-Pacific, including particularly Korea, and on the politics of economic reform and globalization.
